No problem :smile: . That was my first time helping someone, it was fun haha.

Drew Stonebraker

@drstonebraker

I've been through all the entire section on JSON APIs and AJAX multiple times and I still have no idea what ajax is or how I used it or am supposed to use it for the projects. Looking at the zipline projects, I feel like I am completely lost and have no idea where to begin. I'm guessing I'm supposed to find my own API that provides random quotes? I found one but it talks about HTTP requests and I don't remember learning about that at all. I felt like all of the other lessons were very straightforward... even into the intermediate algorithms scripting I haven't had any trouble understanding what should be done. But I feel so lost on the ajax, HTTP requests, and APIs... and I can't figure out what lessons I'm even supposed to be looking at. Can anyone help?

Brandon Armstrong

@calmcoolcollected

@drstonebraker I can try. What project are you trying to do exactly?

Drew Stonebraker

@drstonebraker

@calmcoolcollected i was going to start with the random quote machine

Brandon Armstrong

@calmcoolcollected

@drstonebraker Ok. You don't need an API for that one but you could use one.

Drew Stonebraker

@drstonebraker

@calmcoolcollected when you say I don't need an api, are you just referring to hardcoding the different quotes?

Brandon Armstrong

@calmcoolcollected

@drstonebraker Yup exactly. You can put a bunch in an array and randomly sort through it. Unless you're set on using an API.

Tom

@moT01

@drstonebraker youre not crazy, they didn't give much direction or explanation with that section

i felt the same

Brandon Armstrong

@calmcoolcollected

@moT01 Yeah definitely, I was lost when I got to the Twitch one.

Drew Stonebraker

@drstonebraker

@moT01 thank you. They say in the first lesson that I'm going to learn about ajax, and I going through every lesson over and over and can't find anything at all about ajax.

i used quotesondesign.com , their api docs give some pretty good examples i tihnk

Drew Stonebraker

@drstonebraker

@calmcoolcollected I would still need to use and API for the twitter thing tho, right?

Also, I would prefer to learn how to use an API for the quotes... because it's apparently something I should learn, and I have no idea about it. I'm confident I know how to randomly select a quote from a hardcoded array